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Red Sox hire Dave Dombrowski as president; Ben Cherington out as GM

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Dave Dombrowski

The Boston Red Sox have hired former Detroit Tigers president and General Manager Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations, the team announced Tuesday night on Twitter.

In addition, the team said GM Ben Cherington “declined the opportunity to continue as [general manager] but has agreed to assist Dombrowski during the transition.”

“I have known Dave very well for a long time,” Red Sox principal owner John Henry (who also owns Boston.com) said in a statement released by the team. “[Chairman] Tom [Werner] and I have no doubts that Dave is the right person to strengthen our baseball operations group going forward. He is one of the most highly regarded executives in all of baseball, and had options to go with other Clubs. We feel very fortunate that he wanted to come to Boston, and wanted to further his career — now with the Red Sox — as one of the great architects of winning baseball clubs.”

The Tigers fired Dombrowski earlier this month. The team went to two World Series — in 2006 and 2012 — during his 14-year tenure.

“I’ve decided to release Dave from his contract in order to afford him the time to pursue other career opportunities,” Tigers owner Mike Ilitch said in a statement at the time.

Cherington, who started with the Sox in 1999, was named general manager after the 2011 season. He was at the helm when the club won the 2013 World Series. However, the Sox have also finished in last place in the American League East twice in the last three seasons and are on pace to do so again.

“Although we have achieved tremendous success over the last fourteen seasons, we had reached a clear internal consensus that we needed to enhance our baseball operation,” Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said in the team statement. “ In nearly four decades in the game, Dave is a proven winner and he can restore winning ways to Yawkey Way and help to fulfill the Red Sox goal, every year, to be playing meaningful games into October.”

The makeover of the Red Sox’s front office began earlier this month when Larry Lucchino announced that he would be stepping down as the franchise’s president and CEO at the end of the season. Lucchino’s historic 14-year tenure with the Red Sox included three World Series championships — and the hiring of Cherington as GM.

“Ben Cherington is one of the finest individuals I have ever worked with, possessing a maturity and integrity second to none,” Henry said. “Over seventeen years with the Red Sox and in the four years as our General Manager, he always put the best interests of our organization first and foremost, winning a World Series Championship in 2013.”
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